Should Local Taxpayers Pay for an Incoherent English Curriculum?

Individual secondary teachers often have had personalized and idiosyncratic goals for the elective courses they prepared and taught. What is not clear is why local taxpayers should have supported courses years ago that contributed to an incoherent school curriculum. Or why they support a K-12 reading and literature curriculum today that is even more incoherent than ever. The problem may have its roots in the idea that English (called Reading in the elementary school) should be a required subject

Individual secondary teachers often have had personalized and idiosyncratic goals for the elective courses they prepared and taught. What is not clear is why local taxpayers should have supported courses years ago that contributed to an incoherent school curriculum. Or why they support a K-12 reading and literature curriculum today that is even more incoherent than ever. The problem may have its roots in the idea that English (called Reading in the elementary school) should be a required subject…